Please tell me android can do this??...

[dgoodwin]

When you divert another mobile or land line phone number to your phone does it come up with a symbol or something indicating that the incoming call is from a diverted number rather than a direct call to your handset?

If not is there anyway to make it?

My boss has an iphone 3G and when he diverts the work number to his phone there is nothing to indicate the incoming call is diverted which is crap.. My Mothers old school Nokia is capable of this for god sake

Due to carrier handset restrictions im having to decide between a Desire HD and ?the dark side? (apple)

As this phone will be a work and private handset this is deal breaker for me. I asked the same question in an iphone thread and it seems all the fanboys in there are only interested in trivial bull **** the iphone can do rather than anything of actual importance in a phone.

and before anybody says it is network dependent like other people have told me it is not! I've done some testing and put my boss's sim card (the one that shows the number of the diverted call coming in but doesn't indicate the call is diverted on his 3g) into my Nokia n95 8gb and rang the work number, it came up on my Nokia with the phone number and a symbol showing it was a diverted call.

Therefor it is handset dependent and not network.

Surely Android is capable of this.. Is there a setting to change or an app to do it?

 

[user7618]

I'm not real positive, but there may be something you could work out with google voice. Barring that, maybe you could get your mom to trade her nokia to you for that desire hd. From digging around a little, I guess the LG Optimus has this indicator built in. I'm unsure if it would be available on your network.

Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo on Hero action here!

 

[cooksterman]

Phone ID

you are probably correct in that phone ID is phone specific. Your have two choices...

1) As your request is quite obscure I would recommend that you call the individual carriers tech support folks and inquire as to the issue as any self reliant individual would (rather than cry, carp, moan and cuss everyone and every company without doing your homework).

2) I use Google Voice for that very purpose. I forward my work number to my Google Voice account everyday. Clients can call me without knowing my specific cell number...if I choose.

Have a wonderful day.

 

[takeshi]

As this phone will be a work and private handset this is deal breaker for me. I asked the same question in an iphone thread and it seems all the fanboys in there are only interested in trivial bull **** the iphone can do rather than anything of actual importance in a phone.

Thank goodness you're around to tell us what's important and what's not...

Surely Android is capable of this..

Seems like an arbitrary assumption to me. I'd also suggest the GV approach. With GV you can enable Do Not Disturb if you don't want to take calls via GV. That is, unless you're specifically set on the Nokia diverted call indicator.

and before anybody says it is network dependent like other people have told me it is not! I've done some testing and put my boss's sim card (the one that shows the number of the diverted call coming in but doesn't indicate the call is diverted on his 3g) into my Nokia n95 8gb and rang the work number, it came up on my Nokia with the phone number and a symbol showing it was a diverted call.

Therefor it is handset dependent and not network.

That test demonstrates handset dependence. It does not, however, rule out network dependence without a massive leap in logic.

I've seen this question posted once before long ago but never saw an outcome that resulted in a diverted call indicator.

 

[dgoodwin]

you are probably correct in that phone ID is phone specific. Your have two choices...

1) As your request is quite obscure I would recommend that you call the individual carriers tech support folks and inquire as to the issue as any self reliant individual would (rather than cry, carp, moan and cuss everyone and every company without doing your homework).

2) I use Google Voice for that very purpose. I forward my work number to my Google Voice account everyday. Clients can call me without knowing my specific cell number...if I choose.

Have a wonderful day.

As any self reliant individual would do, or if you will "big boy" I took it upon myself and rang my service provider and spoke to "tech support" to pose this same queery to.
The "tech support" guy I spoke to turned out to know as much about handset support and features as I do about Quantum thermodynamics.
And I dont know anything about Quantum thermodynamics.

Therefor I thought I might ask some self proclaimed guru's who actually have an interest in this field rather than a person in a call centre reading specs from a catalogue.

As for my second option you may like to do some homework yourself (Geography specifically here) and discover there are actually coutries outside of the USA (hard to believe I know) that dont have access to services such as Google Voice

Thank goodness you're around to tell us what's important and what's not...

Im sorry you're right, Angry Birds is equally as important as distinguishing an important business call from a private call

That test demonstrates handset dependence. It does not, however, rule out network dependence without a massive leap in logic.

I've seen this question posted once before long ago but never saw an outcome that resulted in a diverted call indicator.

My boss's sim card is also on a different network and still displayed the symbol on my phone.

I see, damn it.. lol



Also why are all you android forum members sticking up for iphone fanboy nut huggers?!

Sheez, pick a side people